Posts Tagged “blog”

Does the Number of Events Determine a Blog’s Worth?

By | April 16, 2013

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A person who reads my blog came up to me the other day and bluntly stated “Is your blog popular? Because I don’t see you get invited to as many events as the other bloggers in Kuwait!” I was left pondering the statement for a bit, usually I let comments like this pass right over [...]

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When Omani Blogger Standi Came to Visit

By | April 7, 2013

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I’ve known Standy for as long as I’ve been a blogger. Back in the days when blogs were stricly personal and we used to know what everyone’s day was like without getting fingers pointed at us for being too self centered ego maniac. Anyways, Standy lives in Muscat, Oman and though she blogs once in every few [...]

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What’s Inside a Bloggerette’s Bag?

By | February 28, 2013

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The other day I was out with my fellow bloggerette Pink Girl and while we were both paying and it was taking forever to do so, my sight fell on our two bags sitting side by side gaping open, each filled to the brim with stuff we can no longer leave the house without. I [...]

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What Do You Believe In?

By | February 20, 2013

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Dear Al-Zain posted the following sentence on her instagram page yesterday, ”State what do you believe in with one word”. It got me thinking of what I believe in that is usually disputable and hence I decided to share and see if

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What Makes a Good Blogger?

By | February 18, 2013

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This question have been circulating in my mind for quite sometime now. What makes a good blogger? Owning a

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Pathetic or Smart: Begging Your Way into Events?

By | February 6, 2013

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I’m astonished with every passing day at the lengths some people would go to to attend a blogger’s event and sadly we’ve seen with our own eyes bloggers that no one had heard of before because they just started yesterday shamelessly asking the event organizers shamelessly to be invited as well or even fighting

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What NOT to do when inviting bloggers to an event

By | January 2, 2013

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A group of bloggers were discussing last year’s events, what’s good what’s funny what’s bad, and then the conversation turned to what’s the most annoying thing we’ve each encountered in these events. There were so many but some of them kept repeating so  I’ve decided post about those point in hopes that the next time someone decides to throw an event [...]

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Do You Ask Bloggers to Write About Your Negative Experiences?

By | December 23, 2012

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I keep getting this request from disgruntled people around me - sometimes from people I barely know – “This happened to me, write about them in your blog!”. Sometimes you sympathise with the individuals, other times you can clearly see they are overreacting, nonetheless, they always expect the end of their demanding statement to be “I will [...]

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Memo Q8 Blog’s Anniversary Giveaway

By | December 15, 2012

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Our fellow Memo Q8‘s blog turned one years old on 12 December 2012. To celebrate that occasion she contacted me saying she had a surprise for me and a surprise it was indeed. A nice giveaway that is not very common in

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Trying Authentic Brazilian Cuisine at Luna Restaurant

By | December 1, 2012

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Even though I am a Vegetarian and quite a picky eater, I’ve always wanted to try new cuisines, exotic if that’s the correct term. We are still hung up on Indian, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese with a good mix of Thai thrown in for diversity. I think we once had a

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Bloggerettes Night at Brush Cafe

By | November 26, 2012

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  The other day I was invited for a “Bloggerette’s Night” in the newly opened “Brush Cafe” in Adaliya area. I’ve heard good things about it and since the weather was quite fine I headed over there with my camera with the intention of sitting

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Yawmyat Wa7da Q8ya Dathra Volume II is Now on Sale

By | July 11, 2012

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  The book is FINALLY done and out for sale! This time it took almost a month from publishing date to hit the market! Woah! If you are in Kuwait you can find a copy in 52 Degrees for the time being and will be on sale in other places soon.

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And the Winners of Three Signed Dathra Books are…

By | July 10, 2012

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Thank you all for participating. Its been a hoot reading your answers and I mean that in a good way Sadly, only 2 got all five answers right! TWO! I’m really disappointed Almost all of the others have gotten confused between 

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Competition: Win one of Three Signed Dathra Vol II Books Today!

By | July 10, 2012

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Finally, after a very long and exhausting wait, I’ve had the pleasure of passing by the printer yesterday to pick up the Dathra book boxes. Dathra, Volume II, will be available for sale by the end of

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Gloria Jean’s Ramadan Delight Gift Basket

By | July 5, 2012

  I had just arrived home yesterday when my door bell rang. Suddenly, there was a huge early Ramadan gift basket from Gloria Jean’s coffee. I had a flashback of the Ramadan gift basket I had received last year (post).  With the gift basket came a

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Do I Need a Business Card as a Blogger?

By | July 1, 2012

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Yesterday in Zain’s social media event I noticed that many of my fellow bloggers were socializing and exchanging business cards with social media people. I was asked several times about my business card and I shrugged, apologizing for not having one. Then I thought to myself, am I a little backwards here? Don’t I need [...]

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New Blog on the Block: Eb6ainiya.com!

By | December 6, 2010

Before recommending that you check out this new foodie blog i must stress that i am not recommending this blog just because i recieved a request to do so. Q80 in Denver, one of the writers behind this blog, has been commenting on food posts and posting forever and his comments are min blog-posts on [...]

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